حریص
See also: حريص
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic حَرِيص (ḥarīṣ, “greedy, covetous”).
Adjective
حریص • (haris)
- greedy, covetous, avaricious, distastefully keen or desirous, especially for something belonging to someone else
- Synonyms: آج (ac), آج كوزلی (ac gözlü)
- 1916, Ahmet Refik [Altınay], قادینلر سلطنتی [Kadınlar saltanatı, Sultanate of Women][1], page 70:
- سلطان ابراهیم قادینه دوشكون اولدوغی كبی ماله و پارایه ده صوك درجه حریصدی.
- Sultan İbrahim kadına düşkün olduğu gibi mala ve paraya da son derece haristi.
- Just as he was addicted to women, Sultan Ibrahim was extremely greedy for money and property.
Derived terms
- حریص ثروت (haris-i servet, “greedy of riches”)
- حریص منصب (haris-i mansıp, “ambitious”)
Descendants
- Turkish: haris
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “حریص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 651
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “haris”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1880
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “harîs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 395
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حریص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 504
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Avidus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[4], Vienna, column 104
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “حریص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 1752
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “haris”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حریص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 781
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيص (ḥarīṣ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ha.ˈriːs/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [hä.ɾíːs]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæ.ɹíːs]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [hä.ɾís]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | harīs |
| Dari reading? | harīs |
| Iranian reading? | haris |
| Tajik reading? | haris |
Audio (Iran): (file)
Adjective
حریص • (haris)
- greedy; covetous
- Synonyms: پرطمع (por-tama'), آزمند (âzmand)
- آدم حريص و آزمند ― âdam-e haris o âzmand ― greedy and covetous person
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 21:
- کوزهی چشم حریصان پر نشد
تا صدف قانع نشد پر در نشد- kūza-yi čašm-i harisān por na-šud
tā sadaf qāni' na-šud por dorr na-šud - The pitcher, the eye of the covetous, never becomes full:
The oyster-shell is not filled with pearls until it is contented.
- kūza-yi čašm-i harisān por na-šud
Derived terms
- حریصانه (harisâne)
- حریصی (harisi)